NOTE: Some of these symptoms are found in non-fascist countries where they should be treated as serious warning signs. On the other hand, fascist states - unlike democratic nations - have many, if not all, of these symptoms:

• Your president asserts the right to ignore part or all of laws passed by the national legislature.


• Massive warrantless searches


• Your president and other officials regularly lie to you


• Fraudulent election counts


• Government monitoring of letters, emails, phone calls and checking accounts


• Secret courts


• A government subservient to the interests of the country's largest corporations.


• Use of torture on prisoners


• Courts that support presidential use of unconstitutional powers


• Massive spying on citizens, especially those involved in political dissent


• A government that uses words like democracy, freedom and peace while engaging in acts dramatically at odds with such words


• Government agencies or officials declaring themselves exempt from portions of the law or constitution


• Creation of watchlists, no-fly lists and similar exclusionary documents


• National ID cards


• Massive use of cameras to spy on citizens


• A media supportive of, or obsequious towards, the government in covering its police state activities


• Lack of legal recourse to stop illegal government actions


• Prison without trial and arrests without charges

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